People may believe correct things for the damndest and weirdest of wrong reasons.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.